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This page is to collect and organize information regarding the Wikiversity learning project CisLunarFreighter.

CisLunarFreighter is a game being produced by participants at Wikiversity to get direct hands on experience with developing computer games. Using open source tools to the extent possible, participants using a variety of resources will produce a stellar educational game.

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Goals

Have fun
Perform production tasks whilst learning
Learn from mistakes
Create multiple player interactivity
Create client/server applets for CisLunarFreighter as well as a standalone application
Create an interface to other games with compatible communication format, and/or setup multi-user co-residency (API?)

Project plan

In work in small pieces around Wikiversity learning trails. Perhaps a couple of entrepreneurs or other project leader types will tackle a draft schedule or work breakdown structure soon.

/task list

Project contents

Terran, Lunar, Asteroid, or Saturn Pirate Base

/Pilot cockpit screen/

Mini Map Radar Overview, Cockpit Menu, Headsup Communicator

Specifications

What should the user experience be like?

An overview of the game's major requirements:

Entertainment -- should be fun.
Social -- Interaction with other people via
- Chat -- most mud environments allow this
- Email -- useful or not?
- Game consequences -- makes the game more interesting
Educational - Exposure to some science, engineering, and operations concepts
- Math practice
- Reading around the web
- Use of open source tools for modding
- Software design and coding techniques

Hardware requirements

The game client and server should run on any adequate performance desktop. It is not intended as a primary focus to meet the needs of the emerging hand-held computing and communications markets.

Game testing

This will have to be done by the developers until we get enough of a game up and running to attract alpha and beta player/testers.

We might get some help from other Wikiversity participants at other Wikiversity course participant's pages.

Game materials distribution

Has begun on an adhoc basis. Longterm we intend to setup a SourceForge project to backup and distribute at least the stable releases of the open source materials on demand 24/7.

Active participants

Participants willing to coordinate, consult and/or kibitz reqarding questions:

Mirwin 05:07, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
71.164.246.16 23:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
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External links

ORBITER
Planets 3D - OpenGL Solar system sim

Creative materials

In this project we wish to use materials free as in beer as well as licensing so we have simple distribution to anyone who wishes to download from Sourceforge or receive source or executable from other sources.

Applicable tutorials

The following online tutorials demonstrate useful game programming techniques.

Writing a Space Invaders game in Java

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